--- title: "Opinion - Swan Bitcoin" description: "Swan Bitcoin articles about Opinion: Bitcoin news, analysis and insights from the Swan team." url: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/ --- # Opinion - Swan Bitcoin Swan Bitcoin articles about Opinion: Bitcoin news, analysis and insights from the Swan team. --- Swan Bitcoin articles in the Opinion category, newest first. - [Is Bitcoin Safe for Generational Wealth?](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/is-bitcoin-safe-for-generational-wealth/): Is Bitcoin safe for generational wealth? Learn why custody, inheritance planning, and patience matter more than price when building lasting family wealth with Bitcoin. - [Why Every Gold Investor Should Seriously Consider Bitcoin](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/why-every-gold-investor-should-seriously-consider-bitcoin/): After managing a Swiss gold fund for 8 years, I realized Bitcoin surpasses gold as the ultimate store of value. Here's why every gold investor should study Bitcoin closely. - [The Ghosts of Glass-Steagall: SAB 122 and History’s Warning for Bitcoin’s Future ](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/the-ghosts-of-glass-steagall-sab-122-and-history-s-warning-for-bitcoin-s-future/): The SAB 121 repeal mirrors the end of Glass-Steagall in 1999, which played a major role in the 2008 financial crisis. Bitcoiners should listen to history and be more cautionary about SAB 122. - [The Scambling Age](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/the-age-of-scambling/): Trump Coin and the wild west of non-Bitcoin crypto - [From Fiat Family Home to Bitcoin Mining Trailer: Off-Grid Steve](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/from-fiat-family-home-to-bitcoin-mining-trailer-off-grid-steve/): The British Bitcoiner on a mission to understand whether Off-Grid, Bitcoin miner heat living is a viable and crucially, profitable venture. - [Why Bitcoin Needs To Change](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/why-bitcoin-needs-to-change/): When we save our life’s work in bitcoin, we want to be certain that the wealth generated by such work will still be around decades or even centuries from now. - [Germany's Bitcoin "Brown Bottom"](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/germany-s-bitcoin-brown-botom/): Germany's 50,000 BTC dump at the bull run start is baffling, especially since they can print fiat. This, along with poor energy policies and free speech disregard, shows why Bitcoin offers hope for a better world. - [Trump, Bitcoin, and the Swamp](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/trump-bitcoin-and-the-swamp/): What does the Trump assassination attempt mean for the 2024 election and Bitcoin policy? Also, the U.S. secret service shows itself to be as incompetent as the mainstream media is when it covers anything Trump. - [Bitcoin Wealth Distribution](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/bitcoin-wealth-distribution/): Bitcoin curbs government overreach through money printing and devaluation. It promotes saving and long-term investment over fiat's consumerism, empowering global citizens and potentially sparking a cultural renaissance. - [CFTC Coming For Bitcoin?](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/cftc-coming-for-bitcoin/): Competition exists between US government agencies like the SEC and CFTC to regulate Bitcoin. Senate Democrats propose giving the CFTC unprecedented control over BTC, beyond its traditional role. - [Bitcoin Miners Depilating Dogs?](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/bitcoin-miners-depilating-dogs/): Is Bitcoin mining is behind canine hair loss, old oak trees dying, and old people getting sick? No. But, the smear campaigns remain relentless. - [Is Bitcoin Controlled By Tether?](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/is-bitcoin-controlled-by-tether/): Questions about Bitcoin market and transactional value, and Tether's influence. Bitcoin isn't controlled by Tether, which is likely not a Ponzi scheme but a profitable business. - [Bitcoin: Too Volatile To Be Money?](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/bitcoin-too-volatile-to-be-money/): BTC's price volatility is due to its smaller market cap. Although its been decreasing over time, it could spike during a fiat currency collapse, similar to the unpredictability of gold prices during the Weimar Republic. - [Bitcoin HODL'ing vs. Spending](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/bitcoin-hodl-ing-vs-spending/): In this video, Matt discusses Bitcoin HODL'ing vs. Bitcoin spending. Most people should probably have at least 2 Bitcoin buckets: 1) Deep cold storage Bitcoin, 2) Spending wallet. - [Bitcoin's HODL Culture](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/bitcoin-s-hodl-culture/): Bitcoin's culture of hodling, and how important it is both for building strong individuals and families, as well as creating the precondition for a Bitcoin circular economy to develop. - [Bootstrapping Bitcoin](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/bootstrapping-bitcoin/): Launching a new cryptocurrency is challenging, needing miner compensation through new issuance (diluting holders) or transaction fees (requiring long-term demand). Bitcoin successfully navigated this quagmire. - [Is Kaspa The Next Bitcoin?](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/is-kaspa-the-next-bitcoin/): Kaspa's strengths (no premine, proof of work, capped supply) are undermined by its concentrated founding team and devs with outspoken political views, raising concerns about its neutrality and future forks. - [Highly Regarded Bitcoin Miner](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/highly-regarded-bitcoin-miner/): Matt discusses Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA), a US Bitcoin miner criticized for OFAC censorship, spamming the network and mining altcoins. With stock price and revenue down - survival is uncertain. - [How To Deprogram Yourself](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/how-to-deprogram-yourself/): Learn how to deprogram yourself, and get on the path to recovery from years of abuse and gaslighting by governments, schools, corporations, lobbying groups, and the media. - [The Magic of Dollar-Cost-Averaging (DCA’ing) Bitcoin](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/the-magic-of-dollar-cost-averaging-dca-ing-bitcoin/): Dollar cost averaging (DCA) imposes the discipline of buying fewer sats when the fiat price is higher and more sats when the fiat price is lower, thus giving you a lower fiat cost basis. - [Is Bitcoin A Giant PsyOp?](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/is-bitcoin-a-giant-psyop/): Fiat money, not Bitcoin is the true psyop, controlling money supply to fund bureaucrats. Opt out and choose Bitcoin, the freedom money. - [Mt. Gox Dump Coming?](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/mt-gox-dump-coming/): The market may overreact to the upcoming Mt. Gox BTC distribution - presenting a buying opportunity. Long-term HODLers should use lower prices to accumulate BTC. - [Crypto's Fatal Flaw Discovered?](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/crypto-s-fatal-flaw-discovered/): A critical flaw in cryptocurrency, based on a series of tweets by Miles Deutscher - highlighting a major fundamental issue that is beginning to surface in the crypto world. - [Will Bitcoin Kill All Stocks?](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/will-bitcoin-kill-all-stocks/): Sound money, free markets, and corporations can coordinate human activity and productivity effectively, but stocks, unlike Bitcoin, are paper assets subject to management, regulatory, and operational risks. - [The Sunshine Manifesto](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/the-sunshine-manifesto/): Rather than being something to be avoided, sunlight has many health benefits that most people are unaware of, from reducing chronic illnesses, to prolonging your life. - [Billionaires Boosting Bitcoin ](https://www.swanbitcoin.com/opinion/billionaires-boosting-bitcoin/): Larry Fink's CNBC interview, retweeted by Michael Saylor and Michael Dell, pitches Bitcoin as a legitimate hedge against monetary debasement with non-correlated returns. Bitcoin is HOPE!